Listening With Love: Pastoral Counselling: A Christian Response to People Living With HIV/Aids

HIV/AIDS has touched the lives of millions of people around the world. For those infected with the disease, and their families, friends and neighbours, living with AIDS is often especially difficult because of the ignorance, fear and prejudice they encounter. Those who live with HIV/AIDS can feel isolated and ashamed, unable to talk to others, unable to express their feelings, unable to voice their fears for themselves and their loved ones. The care and counselling of those living with HIV/AIDS can seem a immensely difficult task. "Listening with Love" is designed for all those Christians who are called to help people cope with HIV/AIDS. Step by step, it introduces us to the basic medical facts, and guides us through practical, loving approaches that enable us to empathise and communicate with those whose lives have been transformed by the disease. Using everyday language and case studies that reveal the kinds of issues and problems that counsellors typically face, this Bible-based manual helps us discover within ourselves and those to whom we talk the confidence, respect and hope that can help people living with HIV/AIDS overcome their fears.